I never said there were WMD's in tunnels. We have spy photos of cargo being moved into underground tunnels in Syria, we don't know what the cargo was, but this was happening as the US was dealing with the UN over Iraq's compliance with UN resoultions about their WMD's. We also documented (the UN) over 80k liters of nerve gas, in Iraq in 1998, which has yet to be accounted for. Putting two and two together, there is a good possibility the WMD caches we expected to find in Iraq, were spirited out of the country.
I also never said 500 troops would be killed in Iraq, that is just an outright left-wing lie and distortion of something I did say. During the debate over Iraq being a "quagmire" and constant comparisson to Vietnam, I pointed out how FEW deaths had been endured in Iraq, in comparisson to all the other wars and battles we have fought. Fewer US soldiers have died in Iraq than in some single battles of the South Pacific in WWII. What I stated was, I doubt when all is said and done, more than 5,000 soldiers would have given their lives for Iraq's liberation. Even though it wasn't intended as some sort of "estimate" or "prediction" it turns out to have been a pretty accurate assessment. In fact, last month, we probably had more US military fatalities on US soil, than inside Iraq.